Fans were furious with ESPN's NBA draft lottery show

ESPN's NBA draft lottery broadcast had typically been a 30-minute show that still managed to drag on far too long. It got even worse on Tuesday.

The hour-long ESPN broadcast spent the first 30 minutes of the show breaking down the lottery candidates and holding various interviews in Chicago. With an 8:30 p.m. ET tipoff for Game 2 of the Eastern Finals, it was clear that ESPN was going to keep viewers waiting as long as it could for the actual lottery to start. A sitdown with Adam Silver was peppered between commercial breaks. At 8:10 p.m., the lottery still hadn't really started.

The broadcast was reminiscent of CBS' much-criticized NCAA tournament selection show in 2016. Viewers again had to wait far too long to see what they had tuned in for, and predictably, many NBA fans hated the longer lottery broadcast. The pace was far too slow.

The NBA Draft Lottery is definitely one of the stupidest things ESPN has turned into a fully sponsored, hour-long program.

If the NFL ran the NBA Draft Lottery, we'd find out the first 11 spots tonight in a 3-hour show, and then the final three would be revealed tomorrow in a 2-hour show. With simultaneous coverage on ESPN, TNT and ABC.